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[Josh Reynolds @JoshReynolds24]

Regardless of your hockey team, this Stanley Cup Finals intro is absolutely unbelievable…

Ray Bourque interview, @TheKillers ‘All These Things That I’ve Done’ playing, Jon Hamm narrating… Just perfection. Made me tear up.

Extremely well done 👏🏽👏🏽

[Sportsnet @Sportsnet]

Lights will guide you home 🔥

@coldplay's Fix You gets us set for Game 6 in Montreal 🎶

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

This is it.
Everything learned spending millions on longevity.

From: Your Immortal Unc and Auntie.
To: Our Immortal nieces and nephews.

0. Sleep is the world's most powerful drug.
1. Be in your bed for 8 hours
2. Same bedtime every night, any time before midnight
3. Don’t eat right before bed
4. Calm foods for dinner
5. No screens 1 hour before bed
6. Avoid added sugar (be aware it’s in everything)
7. Avoid all things in an American convenience store
8. Avoid fried foods
9. Shoes off at the door
10. Eat whole foods, particularly veggies fruits nuts legumes berries
11. Walk a little after meals or air squats
12. Get your heart rate high routinely
13. Lift heavy things
14. Stretch daily
15. Water pik, floss, brush, tongue scrape, morning and night
16. Make an effort to drink water
17. Get sunlight when you wake up (UV is low)
18. Protect skin in midday sun
19. Stand up straight
20. See at least one friend once a week
21. Avoid plastic where you can (in all things)
22. Circulate air in rooms
23. When stressed, breathe, learn to calm your body
24. Go to the dentist
25. Avoid sitting for long times
26. Protect your hearing, the world is too loud
27. Alcohol is bad for you
28. Finish coffee before noon
29. Avoid bright lights after sunset
30. If obese, look into a GLP
31. Sleep in a cold room
32. Texting while driving is dangerous
33. Turn off all notifications
34. Limit social media use
35. Don’t smoke anything
36. If you struggle to sleep, read a physical book before bed
37. 1 hour before bed have a calm wind down routine: bath, read, light walk, listen to music
38. The body is a clock and loves routine. Have a daily morning and evening schedule.
39. Avoid long distance travel where you can
40. Baby steps first: incorporate new things slowly
41. Do less… most things don’t work.

Bonus points if you get your blood checked.

Start here, it will change your life.

[Sarbraj Singh Kahlon @sarbrajskahlon]

CCTV footage has emerged from the serious collision on Scott Road in Surrey involving a motorcycle that was left hanging from a traffic light pole.

Despite the severity of the crash, the motorcyclist survived and sustained serious but non-life-threatening injuries.

[Sportsnet @Sportsnet]

AND HERE WE GO 🗣️🗣️🗣️

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Doug Tompkins co-founded The North Face in 1966. He sold his share a few years later for $50,000. The real money came later, from a clothing brand called Esprit that he built with his first wife. He walked away from fashion in his forties and spent the rest of his life buying up wild land in South America and giving it away as national parks.

He died in 2015. His kayak flipped on a freezing Chilean lake while he was paddling with friends, including Yvon Chouinard, the founder of Patagonia (the clothing company). Doug spent almost two hours in near-freezing water before he was pulled out. The hypothermia killed him. He was 72.

The 800,000 hectares everyone keeps posting (about 2 million acres) is just the land Doug and his wife personally handed over. Kris took over after he died. She had been the CEO of Patagonia, the same clothing brand Yvon founded, named after the very region the couple was busy protecting. In 2018 Kris handed a million acres of their own land to the government of Chile. It is still the biggest land gift any private group has ever made to a country. Chile thanked them by upgrading nine million more acres of nearby state land to national park status.

Add it all up and you get about 15 million acres now protected across Chile and Argentina. More land than all of Switzerland. Thirteen new national parks have been created, with several more expanded. A 1,700-mile road called the "Route of Parks" connects them, running from the middle of Chile down to the bottom tip of South America. More than 90% of Chile's protected land is now in Patagonia.

Buying the land was just step one. They also brought in biologists to put the missing animals back. Jaguars are back in Argentina's wetlands after 70 years gone. So are giant otters, small native deer, and Andean condors (the huge South American vultures with wingspans up to 10 feet).

The latest piece is being finalized this spring. Chile is about to declare Cape Froward, at the very southern tip of the continent, the country's 47th national park. The land came from another 314,000 acres (about the size of Grand Teton) that Kris's foundation transferred to the Chilean government in late 2025.

Doug got the project off the ground. Kris closed the biggest pieces after he was gone. More than three decades of work, four hundred million dollars of their own money, and roughly 15 million acres now protected as national parkland.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The research behind this is wild. Your sperm carries a set of instructions that tell your genes when to turn on and off. A Duke University study found that THC rewrites those instructions. The more weed in your system, the bigger the changes. It goes straight for the genes your future embryo needs in its first week of life.

I had to read the "day 3 crash" part twice. For the first three days after fertilization, an embryo runs entirely on the mother's DNA. Day 3, the father's genes switch on. If those genes carry cannabis damage, the embryo just stops growing. Fertility doctors see this happen in their labs: embryos that fertilized fine and looked healthy on day 2 go completely still by day 5.

Boston University tracked 1,535 couples trying to have a baby. Men who smoked weed once a week or more doubled their partner's miscarriage risk. That number held up even when the woman herself never touched cannabis. And the miscarriages clustered in the first 8 weeks, right when the father's damaged DNA would be doing the most harm.

Duke also found that the specific genes THC alters in sperm overlap with genes linked to autism. One of those genes, called DLGAP2, helps brain cells communicate with each other. It was changed in cannabis users' sperm. When researchers bred THC-exposed male rats and checked their offspring, the same altered gene pattern showed up in the pups' brains. The damage crossed a generation.

Weed has gotten way stronger over the last 30 years. THC content was about 4% in the 1990s but nearly quadrupled to 15% by 2018, and modern dispensary strains regularly sit at 20-30%. Concentrates go up to 95%.

Quitting for about 11 weeks (one full cycle of sperm production) reverses some of the DNA changes. Not all of them. Duke's lead researcher says men should stop at least 6 months before trying for a baby. Half of your kid's genetic blueprint comes from you, and right now, THC is editing that blueprint before conception even happens.

[Jim Bianco @biancoresearch]

Private credit was always on a search for companies that had a big moat (meaning competitors could not easily disrupt them) and stable cash flows.

For years companies that fit this criteria were Software/SaaS companies. There are tens of thousands of them that makes specialized software for every industry and a multitude of applications. So private credit funds have a big weighting in Software/SaaS companies.

Then AI came and disrupted the Software/SaaS industry. Now the cost of making software is collapsing towards zero and the fear is these companies are going to get disrupted by low cost entrants (smaller/no moat) offering the same Software/SaaS products at a fraction of the price (uncertain cash flows).

That said, Software/SaaS companies haven’t been disrupted yet. So when the public companies release their Q1 earnings reports, they will show their moats and cash flows are still very much intact.

But this is an issue of where the Software/SaaS companies are going next, not where they are now.

Publicly traded Software/SaaS stocks have been getting crushed in the last few months on fears that these companies are about to experience huge disruption thanks to AI.

The private credit funds are in a difficult spot. They value these companies based on where they are now, not necessarily an expectation of where they’re going next.

Investors in private credit funds think these companies are in trouble, so if private credit funds CORRECTLY say that their valuation RIGHT NOW is still top dollar (because it is), then private credit investors will take that valuation and run for the hills. This is why these funds are seeing huge requests for redemption.

It’s a difficult thing to do, which is why they have a problem in simultaneously telling everyone that the cash flows of these companies are great NOW, and also convinced them that they will be great going FORWARD in a world of abundant AI.

https://t.co/3HcmwGeyjm

[Hedgeye @Hedgeye]

The total fertility rate has fallen below 1.6, well under the 2.1 replacement threshold.

In 1968, ethologist John B. Calhoun built what he called a “Mortality-Inhibiting Environment for Mice” — a physical utopia with unlimited food, water, perfect climate, no predators, no disease.

It started with 8 mice (4 pairs).

The experiment setup allowed for as many as 3,840 mice in terms of nesting space. The food system was even more robust, 9,500 mice could eat at the same time without discomfort, and 6,144 could consume water without any problems.

Yet the population peaked at 2,200, well short of the actual capacity, and from there came the decline.

Mice born into the chaos couldn’t form normal social bonds or engage in complex social behaviors such as courtship, mating, and pup-rearing. Males stopped competing. Females stopped mothering.

A group Calhoun named “the beautiful ones” emerged — males who took to grooming all day, preening and licking themselves hour after hour, with zero interest in courting females and zero interest in sex. The mice could still physically reproduce.

They had simply forgotten how to be mice.

The parallels to 2026 America are uncomfortable.

And, this is where Neil Howe’s @HoweGeneration Fourth Turning framework becomes indispensable.

Howe describes an American malaise: a government that can no longer carry out even the most basic tasks of governance; rock-bottom public trust; hyper-partisanship; high economic inequality; declining public health; moral and legal chaos; strife between the sexes; and a collapse of family formation and birth rates.

This isn’t random decay. It’s the signature of the Fourth Turning, or the “winter” crisis era that recurs every 80-100 years.

Howe’s model says that the same conditions that produce the fertility collapse — atomization, institutional decay, loss of shared purpose — are the preconditions for renewal.

The Unraveling (third turning) maximized individualism until it curdled into isolation.

The Fourth Turning forces the collective back together through crisis: economic, military, institutional, or all three.

Howe’s framework says winter is the season of maximum darkness, but also the season that precedes spring.

The Fourth Turning doesn’t just destroy the old order, it inspires the shared purpose & renewal that makes people want to build families again.

[doomer @uncledoomer]

does this financial strategy actually work??

[Colby Armstrong @armdog]

The terminator of trades.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

At 30, you should have retirement savings worth one year of your annual income, and double that by age 35, according to Fidelity.

By 60, the typical worker should have eight times their annual income socked away for their retirement. By 67, you should have 10 times your income saved.

Do you agree?

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

BREAKING: Quebec’s liquor board, the SAQ, will return American products to its shelves. Pulling U.S. products cost Quebec taxpayers well over $20 million, according to reports.

The insanity is over. Let consumers decide.

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Robert Friedland on the masive copper shortage to meet future grid, clean energy and AI demand:

“We’re consuming 30m tonnes of copper a year. Only 4m tonnes of which is recycled. That means to maintain 3% GDP growth — with no [further] electrification — we have to mine the same amount of copper in the next 18 years as we mined in the last 10,000 years, combined.

In the next 18 years, I’ve got to mine the same amount of copper as we mined the last 10,000 years. [This is without any new] electrification, without data centers, without solar and wind and the greening of the world economy. You people have no idea whatsoever what we’re facing.”

[Robert Friedland @robert_ivanhoe]

If you want to understand what is happening in COPPER right now, I highly recommend careful reading of this incredibly well-written article.

The Red Metal Singularity https://t.co/KbOOINHyCV

[Peter Anthony Cowan @living_energy]

Low-frequency electromagnetic fields can degrade collagen, weaken tendons, and cause soft-tissue damage at levels regulators call "safe."

We have a real world case study proving this:

An NFL team whose practice facility sits next to a massive electrical substation.

THREAD 🧵

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[Morgan Housel @morganhousel]

A few things I'm pretty sure about:

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[what do i know @Murlphie]

@JoshCrumb @abaxx_tech Hell yeah

[Jay Rosehill @Jay_D_Rosehill]

Hey @Sportsnet I just bought the $250 annual plan and I still can’t watch the Leafs in Alberta.

Your monopoly on watching hockey is an absolute embarrassment